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Re: [stratfor.com #1932] NDIA New and Renewing members January-February 2008

90 of the 9400 e-mail addresses already exist in our db... some are paid
members, others freelisters, and still others people currently or formerly
on Guest Passes... Just need to know what to do w/ them.

Just so everyone's aware and unless anyone has any objections I'm going to
be running this
batch import *tonight* - the first phase will be running the actual
import, getting the user data
into the system. The second phase will be mass sending of the welcome
emails (a copy of
which I just send on the generic NDIA RT thread). My tests in development
are showing up
fairly clean but given the amount of user data it does take a while to
run.

Now we do have a small issue of what do with users in the system but there
are only about 90
of these folks, some of which have had forced GP (per aaric/stephen forced
trial run as they
were on freelist) but there are definitely a number of which have paid
memberships in good
standing. The question is - what to do with these folks. This is not a
question we have to
answer right away (I can just import the rest of the folks in the file)
but I'm sure we want to
answer this question for the long term so please let me know what ya'll
think.